Flight was ‘full of selfish Covidiots’

A flight from the Greek island of Zante on which almost 200 passengers were told to self-isolate after corona virus cases were confirmed was “full of selfish ‘covidiots’ and an inept crew”, a traveller has said.

There are 16 cases of Covid-19 linked to people who took Tui flight 6215 to Cardiff on 25 August. Officials know that seven of those cases were infectious or potentially infectious whilst on the flight.

Dr Gwen Lowe, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales, said there had been about 30 cases in Wales in the past week that have come back from Zante, confirmed in people who were on different flights and staying in different locati ons. Stephanie Whitfield was on the Tui flight to Cardiff and described how passengers were not wearing masks correctly and seemed to “disregard the rules”.

She said: “Lots of the p eo - ple were wearing the masks underneath their noses or even underneath their chins. They were taking the masks off to talk to friends and they were going up and down the aisles to talk.”